February 2009
Partnership for America's Economic Success
This study, for the Partnership for America's Economic Success, explores the impacts of a range of parenting education programs and their short- and long-term gains for families and society.
Client Area: Foundations
Expertise Area: Children, Youth, and Family Policy
February 2009
The Commonwealth Fund
Lewin contact: John Sheils
This document presents the approach used by The Lewin Group to estimate the impact of the Commonwealth Fund’s health reform proposal entitled “Path to a High-Performance Health Care System.” The report describe the provisions of the plan and explains how Lewin simulated the plan’s impact on coverage and costs for households, employers, the federal government and state and local governments. It also presents the methodology used to estimate the cost impacts of a series of system savings initiatives included in the proposal.
The primary analytic tool used in the analysis is The Lewin Group Health Benefits Simulation Model (HBSM). The model is designed to show the impact of major health reform plans on major stakeholder groups. It provides estimates of enrollment and costs under alternative health reform plans that reflect the impact of financial incentives created under the plan. Lewin supplemented the model with separate analysis of the various system savings proposals. For each initiative, the report provides a description of the proposal, a review of the available research and evidence on the options and Lewin's estimates of the program’s impact over five-, ten- and fifteen-year periods.
Client Area: Foundations
Expertise Area: Health Reform
January 2009
The Commonwealth Fund
Lewin contact: John Sheils
The Commonwealth Fund commissioned The Lewin Group to estimate the cost and coverage impacts for each of the proposals examined in this report.
Client Area: Foundations
Expertise Area: Health Reform
October 2008
California HealthCare Foundation; The California Endowment
Lewin contact: Lisa Chimento
The California HealthCare Foundation and The California Endowment engaged The Lewin Group to conduct an assessment of One-e-App, an electronic application and enrollment system that allows applicants to apply for multiple public programs through a single application process. The assessment focused on evaluating and demonstrating the benefits of One-e-App both qualitatively and quantitatively. This report presents a summary of the assessment’s background, Lewin’s approach to the analysis, key analytic findings, key implementation considerations, and policy and operational considerations promoting One-e-App’s optimal use.
Client Area: Foundations
Expertise Area: Medicaid and CHIP
June 2008
The Commonwealth Fund
Lewin contact: John Sheils
This document is a compilation of the technical documentation developed for the Commonwealth Fund analysis of options for reducing health spending growth entitled “Bending the Curve.” In this analysis, we provided cost analyses for 15 alternatives for reducing health care costs. We developed these analyses with the Lewin Group Health Benefits Simulation Model (HBSM) and the best available data. For each of the 15 options, we provide a narrative summary of the proposal, a review of the available research and evidence on the option and our estimates of the program’s impact over five- and ten-year periods.
Client Area: Foundations
Expertise Area: Health Reform
January 2008
The Commonwealth Fund
In recent years, health system stakeholders have experimented with a wide range of efforts to stimulate quality improvement, often combined with efforts to contain costs.This report explores strategies that public and private purchasers are using to improve care quality, focusing specifically on the role that states play as employers providing health benefits for public employees and retirees. Examples of innovations used by state public employee health plans include: promoting provider adherence to clinical guidelines and best practices, publicly disseminating provider performance information, implementing performance-based incentives, developing coordinated care interventions, and taking part in multi-payer quality collaborations.
Client Area: Foundations
December 2006
United Hospital Fund; The Commonwealth Fund
Lewin contact: John Sheils
For the United Hospital Fund and The Commonwealth Fund, The Lewin Group estimated the cost and coverage impacts of a variety of options to achieve universal health insurance coverage in New York. The Lewin Group analyzed the expansion scenarios using its Health Benefits Simulation Model.
The full report of the project, A Blueprint for Universal Health Insurance Coverage in New York, is available on The Commonwealth Fund's website.
Client Area: Foundations
Expertise Area: Health Reform
July 2006
California HealthCare Foundation
The California HealthCare Foundation commissioned The Lewin Group to conduct an evaluation of an Ambulatory Care Redesign Collaborative whose objectives included improving patient cycle time, provider productivity and provider and patient satisfaction levels at nine clinic sites affiliated with five public hospital and healthcare systems in California. This report presents the findings of Lewin's external evaluation of this initiative.
Client Area: Foundations
May 2006
Health Council of East Central Florida; Winter Park Health Foundation
Lewin contact: Terry West
The purpose of this report is to provide an objective summary description of Florida's current CON program and review process. It addresses the following questions:
What is Florida's CON program? Why was the CON program established?
When is a CON review necessary?
What is the CON review process and timeline?
What are the perceived benefits and disadvatnages of Florida's CON program?
Client Area: Foundations
April 2006
The California Endowment
Lewin contact: John Sheils
The California Endowment engaged The Lewin Group to provide cost estimates and coverage impacts of four proposals to expand health insurance coverage in California, focusing in particular on the effect that the approaches would have on children. This report provides detailed estimates of the program costs and number of children who would become covered under these proposals, including changes in both public and private coverage.
Client Area: Foundations
Expertise Area: Health Reform
Showing 11 to 20 of 42 item(s)